An assualt with a deadly weapon was reported before 3:40 a.m. Sunday in the 400 block of Washington Boulevard. News reports indicated it happened in a parking lot used by an Islands Fine Burgers & Drinks.

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Records indicate he alsowas arrested Oct. 27, 2013, by San Fernando Valley–based Los Angeles Police Department officers and released on Nov. 24 of that year.

Anyone with information on the case was asked to call the sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.

UPDATE at 2:38 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26: A Venice local who knew Cleveland casually told us he was known to hang out at the Venice Skate Park. He went to Venice High School, we were told.

We reached out to the L.A. Unified School District to confirm that but had yet to hear back.

Dennis Romero is an L.A. Weekly staff writer. He formerly worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.